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American college students are in such an "unhappy state" that "they cannot recognize a moral issue when they scone," according to an article in the current Atlantic Monthly by Paul P. Cram, instructor in History and dean of the History 1 staff...
...undergraduates' blindness to moral issues, their "demand for economic security above everything else," and their "indiscriminate assumption that their elders are sentimentalists or propagandists," is the product of a faulty educational system, Cram says in his analysis of "Undergraduates...
...trouble with American education is threefold, according to Cram. In the first place, "Leadership . . . during the last twenty years has passed into the hands of administrators rather than teachers...
...less than twice the railroad rate. Actually air express rates are five to seven times as high as railroad rates. Result: there is not a single all-express plane flying on U. S. airways today-so no air line can carry a bigger package than it can cram through the passenger door...
When the University prohibited students, under penalty of "disciplinary action," from attending any of the Square cram schools it insured the ultimate demise of a racket which in the past ten years has materially lowered the prestige of a Harvard degree. It also recreated a problem which must not be overlooked. For partly behind the growth of the outlawed tutoring schools was a legitimate educational need--that of organized pre-final reviews. Not all the students who in the past attended commercial reviews did so in order to get crammed with facts they were too lazy to learn for themselves...